Sunday, February 28, 2016

ANCIENT ROME LIVE: A new way to learn about Rome's past

Rome’s enduring contribution to world civilization can, and should,
be communicated in a way that combines the hard facts, solid reasoning,
and new discoveries of university research with the excitement and
immediacy of on-location filming in Rome. If a picture is worth a
thousand words, then a video is worth a million.

Ancient Rome
Live (ARL) is an immersive journey that provides new perspectives about
the ancient city. A multi-platform learning experience, ARL first and
foremost presents original content:

a clickable map of ancient Rome

a library of videos arranged according to topic

live streaming from sites in Rome and her empire.

ARL
provides an interactive platform to engage the many layers of Rome:
monuments, people, places, and events. Ancient Rome Live is a valuable
resource for teachers- and a lot of fun for anyone interested in
history.

Later in 2015 ARL will release an ebook, app, and free
online course. WIth all of these new, coordinated formats, ARL will
change the way ancient Rome is studied.

The primary focus of the project is notice and comment on open access material relating to the ancient world, but I will also include other kinds of networked information as it comes available.

The ancient world is conceived here as it is at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World at New York University, my academic home at the time AWOL was launched. That is, from the Pillars of Hercules to the Pacific, from the beginnings of human habitation to the late antique / early Islamic period.

AWOL is the successor to Abzu, a guide to networked open access data relevant to the study and public presentation of the Ancient Near East and the Ancient Mediterranean world, founded at the Oriental Institute, University of Chicago in 1994. Together they represent the longest sustained effort to map the development of open digital scholarship in any discipline.